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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Last week the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Mr. Michael Donnellan, told the Committee of Public Accounts that Irish jails had become modern asylums, with many inmates suffering from severe mental health issues. One aspect of the problem concerns the welfare of prisoners discharged from the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum and transferred to prison. They may have posed a...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Will they keep denying Catalonia independence also?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In the House yesterday I strongly criticised President Trump's executive order on immigration and the manner in which it had been introduced. However, I am very conscious that it is easy to criticise President Trump; in fact, it is something of a global pastime. What worries me is that we do not seem to challenge other elite people in authority in the same way. Perhaps it is time to have...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The poor man.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The Leader should tell him to bring his umbrella.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I think the Leader was looking for the word "comprehensive".

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: That is the whole problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: People who are conditioned by the media do not hear the hard questions at all. They are living in a bubble.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I am sure the Leader was very glad.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I, too, regret President Trump's executive order relating to immigrants and refugees, and I certainly think it is a retrograde step in terms of promoting solidarity with some of the world's most vulnerable people. However, there were no protests against the Obama Administration's already mean and ungenerous approach to the admission of Syrian refugees, if the United States is compared with...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Táim ag súil leis. Tá Ard-Rúnaí nua ceaptha ag Roinn na Gaeltachta. There is a new Secretary General in the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. We wish Ms Katherine Licken the very best.Ní Gaeilgeoir í. Níl Gaeilge aici, bíodh go bhfuil an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht mar chuid dá freagrachtaí. In...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In conclusion, I am very disappointed with my own alma mater, NUI Galway, or UCG as it was in my time, whose governing authority took a decision recently that the Irish language would not be a requirement for the next president of the college. This went through on the nod. Fair play to Deputy Catherine Connolly, who raised it in the Dáil. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, shrugged his...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Fair play also to Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, who brought forward legislation on this very point that would make it a requirement that the person appointed to such an important job would have Irish. The Government did not oppose it at that point. It seems to me that a lot of lip service is paid to the Irish language. However, when one considers the amount of goodwill towards NUI...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He will not hear this praise again until his retirement.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The issue is the requirement for the appointment . It is not the person but, rather, the requirement.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He could do what Deputy Eamon Ó Cuív did and introduce legislation.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I want to clarify a matter. The Leader and I had a lively exchange yesterday and I want to put it on the record that I have the height of respect for him. Perhaps part of the misunderstanding arose because Pro Life Campaign is a specific organisation. I am certainly in a position to say that the organisation is not - as the Leader said yesterday - well able to get money from abroad and to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: There may be the odd widow or orphan with an Irish passport who does his or her bit from time to time, but there is nothing comparative with the massive influx of resources from foundations to organisations that are pushing for a change in the law. There are real questions to be asked about whether it is good that big foundations can pump massive amounts of money into a small country in...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: We should be able to get to the point where we can actually clarify issues on their own merits without getting partisan about it. The Leader is capable of that and I will try to be capable of it also. I need to say that. It has not been the case that there has been any kind of influx of money to roll out a campaign. Would that there had been, particularly in terms of the very good...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: These people used to defend freedom of conscience and now they want to destroy innocent, unborn lives. Consider the Abortion Rights Campaign Ireland or the likes of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties - supposedly a charity - which is getting money to change the law and-----